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Lia Grainger for The National Post

Ceci Moss for Rhizome at the New Museum

Gareth Branwyn for MAKE Magazine Blog

Ben Spur for BlogTO

"...exemplifies the grandiose ambition of a young artist."

An interactive installation at Brookfield Place, Toronto

Running from April 12 - 24

Part of Brookfield Place's Earth Week Programming

First exhibited and performed January 22, 2010
at Spoke Club, Toronto.

OVERVIEW:

VOTA: Meniscus, is an interactive kinetic sculpture that is brought into contact with a lush green oasis through the sounds made by viewers. Each string responds to a different set of notes in the register of the human voice. Sing or speak loudly into the sculpture and the strings respond, spinning and sweeping out transparent helixes in choreography with the music. They pull the brass rods out of the pond, causing them to hover over the foliage.

It is not a project which invites a over-arching literal reading, nor does it attempt to be dogmatic about the hierarchy of the natural and constructed worlds. What the project does hope to communicate clearly though, is the need to be thoughtful about how we are intervening in the environment.
In VOTA: Meniscus, the relationship between the human user, human invention , and the environment, defies the clichés of invasiveness or destructiveness, and instead serves as a metaphor for the way human creativity and the natural landscape can come together to inspiring effect.

This installation is composed of recycled materials that will find a second life following the exhibition at Brookfield Place.

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